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Tunisian Opposition Unites in Protest After Abir Moussi Receives 12-Year Sentence

Rights groups describe the verdict as proof of a politicized judiciary under President Kais Saied.

Algeria Upholds 7-Year Sentence for French Journalist Christophe Gleizes

Russia Adds Ex-PM Kasyanov and Economist Sergei Guriev to 'Extremists and Terrorists' List

Russia Jails Two 74-Year-Old Jehovah's Witnesses for Three Years

Turkey Files 3,740-Page Indictment Seeking Up to 2,352 Years for Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu

Russia Adds Activist, Political Scientist and Two Cultural Projects to 'Foreign Agents' Registry

Perm Singer Jailed for Seven Days Over Alleged Refusal of Drug Test After Solidarity Concert

Supporters Report Alarming Decline in Boualem Sansal’s Health in Algerian Custody

Russia Puts Astra Editor Anastasia Chumakova on Terrorist–Extremist List

Mali Court Jails Ex–Prime Minister Moussa Mara for Post Backing Jailed Critics

Magadan Court Sentences Exiled ‘Vazhnyye Istorii’ Editor In Absentia to 10 Months’ Corrective Labor

Russia Puts TV Rain Editor and Anchors on Terrorist and Extremist List

Russia Adds Ovsyannikova and Three Others to 'Foreign Agents' Registry

Tunisia Court Sentences Man to Death Over Facebook Posts Criticizing President

Prosecutors Seek Eight-Year In-Absentia Sentence for Dozhd Journalist Anna Mongait

Trump Signals Sanctions Relief for Turkey as Turkish Airlines Orders 225 Boeing Jets

Eurocities Delegation Rallies in Istanbul to Decry İmamoğlu’s Imprisonment

Barcelona Mayor Collboni Joins Eurocities Delegation in Istanbul to Support Jailed İmamoğlu

Turkish Crackdown Expands with Arrest of Istanbul’s Beyoğlu Mayor

Chad’s Succès Masra Sentenced to 20 Years in Politically Charged Trial